Looks like Phabricator is standing the test of fire, so this month among some projects related to Apple technologies you'll find some software projects apps that i'm considering porting to phabricator.

A Kanban board for GitHub issues, here is the repo or go straight to the site to see how it looks. Interesting lightweight methodology that could help tracking time and understand posthumously how much a fix or a feature did cost, again, in term of time. And if you clicked on the wiki link above, be sure to check out Kaizen too.

This was a month of infrastructure reevaluation and a few tools for internal code reviews and ticket management, old and new, were tested, as you'll see below in this month's favorites on github, the shiny new won. More on this in one of the next posts.

Phabricator, Arcanist, Maniphest, etc... i'm wondering who choose this naming scheme... Still a nice and comprehensive suite of weapps to manage software projects. For more info check the site of this opensource project from Facebook or go straight to the GitHub repository. Still not that straightforward to install but it's worth it.

Kandan, an opensource Campfire alternative with fewer features but still functional. Repository link or go to kandan.me straight away to see it in action.

And if you need it, this project adapted GitHub's Hubot to be compatible with Kandan. Link

HTTPKit, an interesting lightweight web services framework in Objective-C, similar in scope to that notorious event-driven framework that people that have never done server-side programming adore, here is the link.

And what you have likely discovered a few minutes after you changed the layout is that that simple script completely blocks the loading of your page until all the images are loaded from the painstakingly slow flickr servers.
Luckily, writeCapture2 and element.write come to the rescue.
These two libraries will load asynchronously the badge content allowing the rest of the page to be displayed.
The setup is quite simple, just download the writeCapture2 and element.write scripts and add them in your \<HEAD>:

If you used layout=x when invoking the badge script, the output will contain a tableless layout and you'll be able to arrange on more than one line the thumbnails and correctly space them with CSS.
Just resize the flickr div and change the style of the \<a> tag surrounding the images.

A few noteworthy open source projects i started following on GitHub in april:

Meteor, uncovered last month and discussed profusely everywhere, is now covered by an MIT license. Looks still a bit scary for the amount of communication protocol details it hides from the developer and for the complete lack of access control on requests performed from the web client to the application DB. Also, it seems that only MongoDB is supported at the moment. link